A Few Mourning Prints from the Victorian Period

Most of these are from the Eddystone, Chester, Pennsylvania, known for their mourning prints.  Many of the conversationals of the 1880s and 1890s were on dark grounds as darker colors were common for the era. Queen Victoria, in mourning for her dear husband Albert (died 1861 from typhoid fever) and Empress Eugenie in mourning for Napolean III (died 1873) and her son (died 1879) set the standard. Queen Victoria remained in 'widows weeds' for the rest of her life.  The prints below would be considered more appropriately as  'half-mourning' when solid black gave way to greys and purples.

 1883 Eddystone

 1885 Eddystone

 Eddystone

 1885 Eddystone

 1885 Eddystone

 1883 Eddystone

1885 Eddystone 

 1883 Bradshaw Hammond, UK

1885 Eddystone 

 1885 Eddystone

 1885 Eddystone

1883 Washington Co., USA 

 1885 Schwabe & Son, UK

 1884 Schwabe & Son, UK

 1885 Eddystone

 1883 Eddystone

 1883 Eddystone

Halloween prints from the 19th Century

 1883 John L Kennedy & Co.

 1884 J. C. F. silk

 1884

 1883 Edmund Potter & Co. Manchester, UK

 1885 Steel River

 1883 Bayley & Craven, UK

 1883 Bayley & Craven

 1883 Bayley & Craven

 

 Devil playing violin 1880's

 late 19th Century

 

 

Yes, you have seen some of these before.....but Halloween is on the way and I couldn't resist.  I wonder if they were printed for Halloween... Sorry, didn't find any black cats or skulls in my collections of 19th Century conversationals

More Conversationals from 1880s and 90s--fruit & nuts

 1884 McNaughton & Co.

 1883 Crum & Co, UK

 1888

 late 19th Century

 1885 Cocheco

 1883 Eddystone

 1883 Edmund Potter & Co, Manchester UK

 

 1883 Grafton & Co

 1885 Pacific

1885 Dunnel Print Works, Strawberry Ice Cream

 1882

1885 Cocheco

 

 1883 John L Kennedy & Co

 late 19th Century

 1883 Grafton & Co

 

Unlike today with all the Farmer's Market type prints, food seems relatively rare in conversational in the 1880s and 1890s.

19th Century swatches of animals/birds/bugs from various manufacturers

 Fox and Crane (Aesop's fable) 1883 John L Kennedy, Manchester

 1881

 1885 Steel River

 1846 roller print, Koechlin Bros Mill, Alsace

1882 Judie Rothermel did this one in 2003, Classic Images 1870-1890

 1885 Tanner & Co

 1883 Bayley & Craven, UK

 1883 Bayley & Craven, UK

 1881

 

1883 Bayley & Craven 

1883 (silk)

 1883 Edmund Potter & Co

 Japanese, late 19th Century

 circa 1880 from child's shirt below

 1883 W Crum & Co, Scotland

 1881

1883 JFC, silk 

late 19th Century

 1885 Schwabe & Son, Manchester

 Rijilteb Co

 

Most of these are from the Zane collection at the Philadelphia  College of Textiles.  I wish someone would reprint them!